CHAPTER IX

The next morning Noll wrote on the letterhead of the bank a formal request to its correspondent bank in Los Angeles for information concerning Miss Dimny Parcot and her family, and their commercial standing. This last was merely an excuse for the letter. He asked that the answer be addressed to him personally as the assistant cashier. On the few occasions when he had access to Dimny he kept up that one-sided conversation. He poured into her ear the refrain: “You are Dimny Parcot! You are not your sister, but yourse…